CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPUTERS
Computers have some significant characteristics for which they have become more and more versatile day by day. They have several capabilities and some limitation which are as follows:
Capabilities
1. SPEED : A computers works one step at a time. it can add and subtract numbers, compare letters to determine alphabetic sequence, and move and copy number and letters. Computers can carry out instructions in less than millionth of a second. it speeds are mesured in mili, micro, nano and pico.
2. ACCURACY : In addition to being very fast, Computers can also calculate very accurately. The circuits in a computer have no mechanical parts to wear and malfunction. Performing their thousands of millionths of operation send these circuits can run errorless for day at a time, if mistake occure in any calculation, they are due to human error like feeding wrong data and instruction given to nthe Computers.
3. REPETITIVENESS : A computers are capable of performing any task given to them repetitively. If any calculation has to be done a Million times a computers will do so with the same speed and accuracy without halting in between.
4. AUTOMATICITY : A computers is autonatic. Once we give approriate instruction to a computers it perform all the necessary tasks untill it meets the 'STOP' instruction.
5. STORAGE CAPACITY : computers has the capability to store large amount of data and instruction and supply the store information to us when we ask for it. The secondary storage deviced like Magnetic taps. are used to store data and information,
6. VERSATILITY : Computers seems capable of performing almost anything provide that the task can be reduced to a series of logical steps.
Computers have some significant characteristics for which they have become more and more versatile day by day. They have several capabilities and some limitation which are as follows:
Capabilities
1. SPEED : A computers works one step at a time. it can add and subtract numbers, compare letters to determine alphabetic sequence, and move and copy number and letters. Computers can carry out instructions in less than millionth of a second. it speeds are mesured in mili, micro, nano and pico.
2. ACCURACY : In addition to being very fast, Computers can also calculate very accurately. The circuits in a computer have no mechanical parts to wear and malfunction. Performing their thousands of millionths of operation send these circuits can run errorless for day at a time, if mistake occure in any calculation, they are due to human error like feeding wrong data and instruction given to nthe Computers.
3. REPETITIVENESS : A computers are capable of performing any task given to them repetitively. If any calculation has to be done a Million times a computers will do so with the same speed and accuracy without halting in between.
4. AUTOMATICITY : A computers is autonatic. Once we give approriate instruction to a computers it perform all the necessary tasks untill it meets the 'STOP' instruction.
5. STORAGE CAPACITY : computers has the capability to store large amount of data and instruction and supply the store information to us when we ask for it. The secondary storage deviced like Magnetic taps. are used to store data and information,
6. VERSATILITY : Computers seems capable of performing almost anything provide that the task can be reduced to a series of logical steps.
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